Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio History, Facts, Meaning and Consequences

Cum ex
Apostolatus Officio is the name of a papal bull issued by
Pope Paul IV on February 15, 1559, as a codification or explicitation
of the ancient Catholic law that only Catholics can be elected Popes,
to the exclusion of non-Catholics, including former Catholics who
have become public and manifest heretics. The Catholic Encyclopedia
explains this ancient, dogmatic and Catholic Law:

The
Catholic Encyclopedia, “Heresy,” 1910, Vol. 7, p. 261:
“The pope himself, if notoriously guilty of heresy, would
cease to be pope because he would cease to be a member of the
Church.”

Heresy is the
obstinate denial or doubt by a baptized person of an article of
divine and Catholic Faith. In other words, a baptized person who
deliberately denies an authoritative teaching of the Catholic
Church is a heretic.

At the time that Paul IV issued the
Bull (quoted in its entirety below) there were rumors that one of the
cardinals was a secret Protestant. In order to prevent the election
of such a heretic to the Papacy, Pope Paul IV solemnly declared that
a heretic cannot be validly elected pope. Below are the
pertinent portions of the Bull and the consequences of this Catholic
teaching. For the entire Bull, see further down.

Pope Paul IV, Bull
Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Feb. 15, 1559: “1…
Remembering also that, where danger is greater, it must more fully
and more diligently be counteracted, We have been concerned lest
false prophets or others, even if they have only secular
jurisdiction, should wretchedly ensnare the souls of the simple, and
drag with them into perdition, destruction and damnation countless
peoples committed to their care and rule, either in spiritual or in
temporal matters; and We have been concerned also lest it may
befall Us to see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of
by the prophet Daniel, in the holy place. In view of this,
Our desire has been to fulfill our Pastoral duty, insofar as, with
the help of God, We are able, so as to arrest the foxes who are
occupying themselves in the destruction of the vineyard of the Lord
and to keep the wolves from the sheepfolds, lest We seem to be dumb
watchdogs that cannot bark and lest We perish with the wicked
husbandman and be compared with the hireling…

“6. In
addition, [by this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in
perpetuity We enact, determine, decree and define:-] that if
ever at any time it shall appear that any Bishop, even if he be
acting as an Archbishop, Patriarch or Primate; or any Cardinal of the
aforesaid Roman Church, or, as has already been mentioned, any
legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, prior to his promotion or his
elevation as Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the
Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy:

“(i) the
promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by
the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void and
worthless;

“(ii) it
shall not be possible for it to acquire validity (nor for it to be
said that it has thus acquired validity) through the acceptance of
the office, of consecration, of subsequent authority, nor through
possession of administration, nor through the putative enthronement
of a Roman Pontiff, or Veneration, or obedience accorded to such by
all, nor through the lapse of any period of time in the foregoing
situation;

“(iii) it shall not be held as partially legitimate in any way…

“(vi) those thus promoted or elevated shall be deprived
automatically, and without need for any further declaration, of all
dignity, position, honour, title, authority, office and power…

“10. No one
at all, therefore, may infringe this document of our approbation,
re-introduction, sanction, statute and derogation of wills and
decrees, or by rash presumption contradict it. If anyone, however,
should presume to attempt this, let him know that he is destined to
incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles, Peter
and Paul.

“Given in
Rome at Saint Peter’s in the year of the Incarnation of the
Lord 1559, 15th February, in the fourth year of our Pontificate.

“+ I, Paul,
Bishop of the Catholic Church…”

With the fullness of his papal
authority, Pope Paul IV declared that the election of a heretic is
invalid, even if it takes place with the unanimous consent of the
cardinals and is accepted by all.

Pope Paul IV also declared that he was
making this declaration in order to combat the arrival of the
abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel, in the holy place.
This is astounding, and it seems to indicate that the Magisterium
itself is connecting the eventual arrival of the abomination of
desolation in the holy place (Matthew 24:15) with a heretic posing as
the pope – perhaps because the heretic posing as the pope
will give us the abomination of desolation in the holy place (the New
Mass), as we believe is the case, or because the heretical antipope
will himself constitute the abomination of desolation in the holy
place.

Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio Meaning and
Consequences

Putative Officeholders and Laws

Putative or purported officeholders and
putative laws are not real officeholders and not real laws. They hold
no offices and thus their laws and judgments are invalid (null and
void) even if everyone wrongly thinks they are real officeholders.

Because an antipope is not a true pope,
all the laws he makes, the judgments he passes, and the offices he
bestows are invalid, null and void. For example, Pope Innocent II
declared all the ordinances of Antipope Anacletus II (Peter
Pierleone) invalid, null and void:

Pope Innocent II,
Second Lateran Council, 1139: “30. We render void
the ordinances enacted by Peter Pierleone [Antipope Anacletus II] and
other schismatics and heretics, and deem them null.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia explains:

“The death
of Pope Honorius II (February, 1130) was followed by a schism. Petrus
Leonis (Pierleoni), under the name of Anacletus II, for a long time
held in check the legitimate pope, Innocent II, who was supported by
St. Bernard and St. Norbert. In 1135 Innocent II celebrated a Council
at Pisa, and his cause gained steadily until, in January, 1138, the
death of Anacletus helped largely to solve the difficulty.
Nevertheless, to efface the last vestiges of the schism, to condemn
various errors and reform abuses among clergy and people, Innocent,
in the month of April, 1139, convoked, at the Lateran, the tenth
ecumenical council. Nearly a thousand prelates, from most of the
Christian nations, assisted. The pope opened the council with a
discourse, and deposed from their offices those who had been ordained
and instituted by the antipope and by his chief partisans, Ægidius
of Tusculum and Gerard of Angouleme.” (The Catholic
Encyclopedia, “Second Lateran Council”, 1910, Vol. 9)

In 1559 Paul IV in his Bull Cum ex
Apostolatus Officio infallibly teaches that a so-called
officeholder who is a formal heretic does not actually hold the
office and thus all his acts are null and void even if everyone
thinks he is an officeholder.

Pope Paul IV, Bull
Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Feb. 15, 1559: “6. Further,
if ever at any time it becomes clear that any Bishop…
or likewise any Roman Pontiff before his promotion or
elevation as a Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has strayed from the
Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy, or has incurred schism,
then his promotion or elevation shall be null, invalid and
void… And it shall not be possible for it to
acquire validity… through the putative enthronement of
the Roman Pontiff… And,
every one of their statements, deeds, enactments, and administrative
acts, of any kind, and any result thereof whatsoever,
shall be without force and shall confer no legality or
right on anyone.”

Thus, an antipope’s laws are
putative laws, and the men given offices by him are putative
officeholders, which means that they are not real laws or not real
officeholder even if everyone thinks they are. For example, every
person that is made a Cardinal by an antipope is not a real Cardinal.
This was the case during the Western Schism when many followed and
obeyed a putative pope (an antipope) and his putative laws and
putative officeholders for forty years. It is exactly the same now
during the Great Apostasy. As will be shown, the so-called Vatican II
“popes” are not real popes but are heretics,
non-Catholics and antipopes and hence they hold no offices and thus
their laws and judgments are invalid (null and void).

CATHOLICS WHO HAD NO ACCESS
TO CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES AND AVOIDED NON-CATHOLIC
PRIESTS AND NON-CATHOLIC CHURCHES

There were times in the history of the
Church when Catholics could not attend Mass or receive the other
sacraments for extended periods of time because no Catholic priests
were available to them. In the case where only non-Catholic priests
were available, Catholics were nevertheless dogmatically banned from
any religious communion with them. Hence in the history of the
Catholic Church there were extended periods of time in which
Catholics were deprived of the Holy Mass and the sacraments of the
Holy Eucharist, penance, extreme unction, confirmation, and orders.
This is empirical proof that the Catholic faith comes before the Mass
and the sacraments and that Catholics can be saved without being able
to attend Mass or receive the sacraments of the Holy Eucharist,
penance, extreme unction, confirmation, and orders. Hence a man can
be saved without these good things, but he cannot be saved without
the Catholic faith.

There is only one sacrament that is
absolutely necessary for all people to receive for salvation, and
that is the sacrament of Baptism.

St. Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Third Part, Q. 64, Art. 6:
“However, in a case of necessity when even a lay person might
baptize, he would not sin in baptizing. For it is clear that then he
does not exercise the ministry of the Church, but comes to the aid of
one who is in need of his services. It is not so with the other
sacraments, which are not so necessary as baptism, as we shall
show further on (65, 3,4; 62, 3).”

Now we want to present some remarkable
stories of saints and ordinary people who lived without the
sacraments for extended periods of times throughout Church history in
order to show people that many Catholics who had been deprived of the
sacraments still managed to go on with their spiritual life, and some
even reached perfection.

St. Paul the Hermit

During the Decian persecution of Christians,
St. Paul the Hermit fled to the desert when he was 16 years old. He
then lived alone in the desert for nearly 100 years without a Mass
and the sacraments of the Holy Eucharist, penance, and extreme
unction. Yet when he died, St. Anthony the Great saw St. Paul’s
soul fly straight to heaven.

The Catholic
Encyclopedia, St. Paul the Hermit: “When a young man of sixteen
Paul fled into the desert of the Thebaid during the Decian
persecution. He lived in a cave in the mountain-side till he was one
hundred and thirteen. The mountain, adds St. Jerome, was honeycombed
with caves.”

The Life of
Paulus the First Hermit, by St. Jerome, 374 or 375: “2.
During the persecutions of Decius and Valerian, when Cornelius at
Rome and Cyprian at Carthage shed their blood in blessed martyrdom,
many churches in Egypt and the Thebaid were laid waste by the fury of
the storm… 4. While such enormities were being perpetrated in
the lower part of the Thebaid, Paul and his newly married sister were
bereaved of both their parents, he being about sixteen years of age.
He was heir to a rich inheritance, highly skilled in both Greek and
Egyptian learning, gifted with a gentle disposition and a deep love
for God. Amid the thunders of persecution he…fled to the
mountain wilds to wait for the end of the persecution. He began with
easy stages, and repeated halts, to advance into the desert. At
length he found a rocky mountain, at the foot of which, closed by a
stone, was a cave of no great size… 6. Accordingly, regarding
his abode as a gift from God, he fell in love with it, and there in
prayer and solitude spent all the rest of his life… 7. …The
blessed Paul had already lived on earth the life of heaven for a
hundred and thirteen years, and Antony at the age of ninety was
dwelling in another place of solitude (as he himself was wont to
declare), when the thought occurred to the latter, that no monk more
perfect than himself had settled in the desert. However, in the
stillness of the night it was revealed to him that there was farther
in the desert a much better man than he, and that he ought to go and
visit him… 14. …And now another day had dawned [for him
to visit him] and a three hours’ journey still remained, when
he saw Paul in robes of snowy white ascending on high among the bands
of angels, and the choirs of prophets and apostles…”

St. Benedict

When St. Benedict was 14 or 15 years of age,
he fled from the world to live in a cave. He lived there for three
years, and a priest visited him only once during that time. Butler’s
Lives of the Saints does not mention that the priest offered him
Mass or the Holy Eucharist; hence, at most, St. Benedict only
attended Mass and received the Holy Eucharist once in three years.

St. Mary of Egypt

St. Mary of Egypt fled to the desert to do
penance and lived in total isolation for nearly forty-seven years
until Abbot Zosimus crossed her path. “Zosimus asked how long
she had lived in that desert. ‘It is,’ she said, ‘as
near as I can judge, forty-seven years.’” (Butler’s
Lives of the Saints, Husenbeth Edition, v. I, April 9, St. Mary
of Egypt, p. 436.)

During these forty-seven years St. Mary did
not attend Mass, receive the Holy Eucharist, or have the sacrament of
penance. Yet God was so pleased with her that He gave her the power
of prophecy and miracles during her self-imposed exile.

Catholics during the Arian crisis

During the Arian crisis in the 4th century,
Arian heretics took over many Catholic churches. Catholics were
forbidden to attend Masses offered by Arian priests or receive any
sacrament from them or be in any other kind of religious communion
with the Arians; and therefore for an extended period of time, many
Catholics could not attend Mass, receive the Holy Eucharist, go to
confession, etc. St. Hermenegild was one such faithful Catholic.

St. Hermenegild,
Martyr: “On Easter night a heretical Arian bishop was sent to
him with Holy Communion, but he refused to receive even the Easter
Communion from the hands of a heretic, and his father then put him to
death.” (The New Roman Missal, Fr. Lasance, 1945, April
13, p. 1687.)

We read that Saint Anthony the Great would
have nothing to do with the Meletian schismatics and Arian heretics
other than to warn them and try to convert them.

St. Athanasius,
Life of Anthony: “68. And he [St. Antony] was altogether
wonderful in faith and religious, for he never held communion with
the Meletian schismatics, knowing their wickedness and apostasy from
the beginning; nor had he friendly dealings with the Manichaeans or
any other heretics; or, if he had, only as far as advice that they
should change to piety. For he thought and asserted that intercourse
with these was harmful and destructive to the soul. In the same
manner also he loathed the heresy of the Arians, and exhorted all
neither to approach them nor to hold their erroneous belief. And once
when certain Arian madmen came to him, when he had questioned them
and learned their impiety, he drove them from the mountain, saying
that their words were worse than the poison of serpents… 69.
…Wherefore have no fellowship with the most impious Arians.
For there is no communion between light and darkness.” (Life
of Anthony [Vita S. Antoni], by St. Athanasius, n. 68,
69.)

St. Athanasius also teaches the dogma that
Catholics are forbidden to attend Mass or any other religious service
in non-Catholic churches, which includes the Arian churches even
though the Arians still called them Catholic churches. He also
teaches the dogma that the Catholic faith must come before churches
and other buildings and before the Mass and sacraments.

Letter of Saint
Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, to his flock: “May God
console you! What saddens you is the fact that others have occupied
the churches [Catholic churches that became Arian churches; a similar
situation to what has happened today] by violence, while during this
time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the
premises—but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our
churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the
places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider
what is more important, the place or the Faith? - The true faith,
obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle—the
one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the
premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they
are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way… You
are the ones who are happy: you who remain within the Church by your
faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come
down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy
has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded.
They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis.
No one, ever, will prevail against your faith, beloved brothers. And
we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. Thus,
the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more
they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they
represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are
expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics
faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who
are the true Church of Jesus Christ.” (Coll. selecta SS. Eccl.
Patrum, Caillau and Guillou Vol. 32, pp. 411-412)

St Athanasius,
Archbishop of Alexandria, to the Solitaries, Second letter to Monks,
Letter 53: “Athanasius to those who practise a solitary life,
and are settled in faith in God, most beloved brethren, greeting in
the Lord. I thank the Lord who hath given to you to believe in Him,
that ye too may have with the saints eternal life. But because there
are certain persons who hold with Arius and go about the monasteries
with no other object save that under colour of visiting you, and
returning from us they may deceive the simple; whereas there are
certain who, while they affirm that they do not hold with Arius,
yet compromise themselves and worship with his party; I have been
compelled, at the instance of certain most sincere brethren, to write
at once in order that keeping faithfully and without guile the pious
faith which God’s grace works in you, you may not give occasion
of scandal to the brethren. For when any sees you, the faithful in
Christ, associate and communicate with such people, [or worshipping
along with them], certainly they will think it a matter of
indifference and will fall into the mire of irreligion. Lest,
then, this should happen, be pleased, beloved, to shun those who
hold the impiety of Arius, and moreover to avoid those who, while
they pretend not to hold with Arius, yet worship with the impious.
And we are specially bound to fly from the communion of men whose
opinions we hold in execration. If then any come to you, and, as
blessed John says, brings with him right doctrine, say to him, All
hail, and receive such an one as a brother. But if any pretend
that he confesses the right faith, but appear to communicate with
those others [the heretics], exhort him to abstain from such
communion, and if he promise to do so, treat him as a brother, but if
he persist in a contentious spirit [and obstinately continues to have
religious communion with the heretics], him avoid. I might
greatly lengthen my letter, adding from the divine Scriptures the
outline of this teaching. But since, being wise men, you can
anticipate those who write, and rather, being intent upon
self-denial, are fit to instruct others also, I have dictated a short
letter, as from one loving friend to others, in the confidence that
living as you do you will preserve a pure and sincere faith, and
that those persons, seeing that you do not join with them [the
heretics] in worship, will derive benefit, fearing lest they be
accounted as impious, and as those who hold with them.”

Catholics in Anglican England

When the Catholic churches in England became
Anglican churches, Catholics were forbidden to attend Masses offered
by Anglican priests, who at that time consecrated the Holy Eucharist
because they were valid priests. Hence for an extended period of
time, most English Catholics could not attend Mass, receive the Holy
Eucharist, go to confession, etc., because they did not have access
to a Catholic priest.

In 1580 Blessed Edward Campion, a convert
from the Anglican religion, worked zealously in England to convert
Anglicans and to edify Catholics. He forbade Catholics to attend the
Masses of the Anglicans who inhabited the once Catholic churches. At
that time in the Anglican Church, 46 years after its creation in 1534
by King Henry VIII, there was still a valid priesthood and therefore
they consecrated the Holy Eucharist.

Wings of Eagles:
“Before Campion and his associates began to preach, Catholics
had often compromised with Protestantism to the extent of attending
the official church services. But Campion preached recusancy, bold
and uncompromising. Catholics could not attend the Protestant
services and retain their faith.” (Wings of Eagles,
Corley and Williams, p. 40, Imprimatur: +Moses E. Kiley, Jan. 11,
1944, Archiepiscopus Milwvkiensis.)

Catholics in schismatic France

When most of the Catholic priests in France
became schismatics by joining the French Constitutional Church,
Catholics were forbidden to attend Masses offered by these priests
even though they consecrated the Holy Eucharist because they were
valid priests. Hence for an extended period of time, many French
Catholics could not attend Mass, receive the Holy Eucharist, go to
confession, etc.

Fr. Demaris, a Missionary of St. Joseph and
professor of theology in Lyon, France, remained faithful during the
upheaval caused by the French Revolution, when many priests had
apostatized by joining the French Constitutional Church. Although
there were no Catholic priests for the bulk of French Catholics,
there were many non-Catholic priests available. In 1801 Fr. Demaris
wrote a consoling letter titled ‘They Have Taken Away My Lord’
addressed to the Catholics who, instinctively obeying the divine laws
that can never change, refused to go to non-Catholic churches and to
attend Masses that were presided over by these ex-Catholic priests
who were now non-Catholic schismatics. He speaks to Catholics of how
God will remit their sins if they make a sincere confession to God
along with the promise to confess to a Catholic priest when one
becomes available. He speaks of making a good confession, just as
they would if a Catholic priest were available.

Fr. Demaris:
“Removed from the resources of the sanctuary and deprived of
all exercise of the Priesthood, there remains no mediator for us save
Jesus Christ. It is to Him we must go for our needs. Before His
supreme Majesty we must bluntly tear the veil off our consciences and
in search of the good and bad we have done, thank Him for His graces,
confess our sins and ask pardon and to show us the direction of His
Holy Will, having in our hearts the sincere desire to confess to His
minister whenever we are able to do so. There, my children, is what I
call confessing to God! In such a confession well made, God himself
will absolve us. It is thus in all painful situations that deprive us
of the Sacraments. The carrying of the Cross like a Christian is the
source of the remission of our sins… What the world does to
drive us away from God only brings us closer… We are now to
repair those faults which came from too great a trust in absolution
and not examining one’s weaknesses thoroughly enough. Obliged
to wail now before God, the faithful should consider all its
deformities… Let this confession to God be for you a short
daily practice, but fervent… The first fruit that you will
draw from it apart from the remission of your sins, will be to learn
to know yourself and to know God, and the second will be to be ever
ready to present yourself to a priest if you are able, enriched in
character by the mercy of the Lord. “…Console
yourselves, my children, in the trust you have in God. This tender
Father will pour on you His graces, His blessings and His mercies in
these awful moments that you fear, in more abundance than if you were
being assisted by His ministers, of whom you have been deprived only
because you wouldn’t abandon Him. The abandonment and
forsakenness that we fear for ourselves resembles that of the Savior
on the Cross when He said to His Father, ‘My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?’…Your pains and abandonment lead
you to your glorious destiny in ending your life like Jesus ended
His! …Don’t be surprised at the great number who quit!
Truth wins, no matter how small the number of those who love and
remain attached to God. God watches over us, our hope is justified.
It tells us that either the persecution stops or the persecution will
be our crown. In the alternative of one or the other, I see the
accomplishment of our destiny. Let God’s will be done, since in
whatever manner He delivers us, His eternal mercies pour into us.”

Fr. Demaris consoles the French Catholics
who were deprived of extreme unction:

Fr. Demaris:
“God, who loves and protects us, wishes to give us His Body at
the approach of death—to take away our fear on this last
journey. When you look to the future and see yourself on your
deathbed, without the last sacrament, without Extreme Unction and
without any help on the part of the ministers of the Lord, you see
yourself abandoned in the most sad and terrible way. Console
yourselves, my children, in the trust you have in God. This tender
Father will pour on you His graces, His blessings and His mercies, in
these awful moments that you fear, in more abundance than if you were
being assisted by his ministers of whom you have been deprived only
because you wouldn’t abandon Him Yourself. The abandonment and
forsakenness that we fear for ourselves resembles that of the Savior
on the Cross when He said to His Father: ‘My God, My God, why
hast Thou forsaken Me?’ (Matthew 27: 46) Ah! How constructive
and consoling are these words! Your pains and abandonment lead you to
your glorious destiny in ending your life like Jesus ended His.
Jesus, in His sufferings, His abandonment and His death, was in most
intimate union with His Father. In your pains and abandonment, be to
Him likewise united, and let your last sigh be like His, that God’s
Will be done. Being deprived of Extreme Unction, and in the hands of
persons, who not only do not help, but insult me, I shall be much
happier that my death shall have more conformity with that of Jesus
who was a spectacle of opprobrium to all the world. Crucified by the
hand of His enemies, He was treated like a thief and died between two
thieves. He was Wisdom itself and was taken for an idiot; He was
Truth, and He was taken for a cheat and deceiver. The Pharisees and
Scribes triumphed over Him and in His Presence. They were finally
sated with His Blood. Christ died in the most shameful infamy of
torture and excruciating pains of the Cross. Christians, if your last
moments and death are an occasion for your enemies to treat you with
insults and disgrace, what were those of Jesus? I am not sure that
the angel who was sent to make up for the hardheartedness and
callousness of men was not to teach us, that in similar
circumstances, we receive the consolation of Heaven when that of men
is missing. It was not without a special plan of God, that the
Apostles who ought to have consoled Jesus, remained in a deep sleep.
So the Faithful should not be surprised to find himself without a
priest in his last moments. Jesus reproached His Apostles that they
slept, but He did not say that they left Him without consolation, to
teach us, that if we go into the Garden of Olives, if we climb up to
Calvary, if we die alone and without human help, God watches over us,
consoles us, and for us that suffices. Faithful, you are afraid of
what follows the present time. Lift your eyes up to Jesus, keep them
on Him, contemplate Him—He is your model.”

Fr. Demaris consoles the French Catholics
who were deprived of the Holy Eucharist:

Fr. Demaris:
“The Holy Eucharist had for you many joys and advantages when
you were able to participate in this Sacrament of love, but now you
are deprived of it for being defenders of truth and justice. …We
sacrifice our own life as much as it is in us to do renewing itself
every day, every time that we adore with submission the hand of God
that drives us away from His altars… It is to be
advantageously deprived of the Eucharist, to raise the standard of
the Cross for the cause of Christ and the glory of the Church…
Yes, I have no fear in saying it. When the storm of the malice of men
roars against truth and justice, it is more advantageous to the
faithful to suffer for Christ than to participate in His Body by
Communion. I seem to hear the Saviour saying to us ‘Repair by
this humiliating deprivation that glorifies Me, all the Communions
which dishonor Me.’”

In all of these above cases, Catholics could
not attend Mass or receive the Holy Eucharist or be confirmed or go
to confession or receive the last rites (extreme unction) for
extended periods of time. Who would dare say that these Catholics
could not save their souls for want of a Catholic priest to offer
Mass and dispense the sacraments? Who would dare say that these
Catholics were not exempted from the obligation to attend Mass on
Sunday? Only heretics who put the Mass and the sacraments before the
Catholic Faith would say or even think such a thing!

"Cum ex Apostolatus Officio"

During
the time of the Council of Trent Pope Paul IV issued his Apostolic
Constitution Cum Ex Apostolic Officio
of February 15, 1559. This 223rd Successor of Peter would die six
months later on August 18th. His four year pontificate was
highlighted by his promotion of moral reforms. This Papal Bull below
also focused on the validity of a prelate or Pope in the event they
were in heresy or apostasy. Because it deals with faith and morals
and was issued ex cathedra
(from the Chair of Peter) and therefore is considered not only
infallible, but to be held in perpetuity.

Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio (English
Translation)

Paul, Bishop, servant of the servants of God, for a perpetual
remembrance hereof.

By virtue of the Apostolic office which, despite our
unworthiness, has been entrusted to Us by God, We are responsible for
the general care of the flock of the Lord. Because of this, in order
that the flock may be faithfully guarded and beneficially directed,
We are bound to be diligently watchful after the manner of a vigilant
Shepherd and to ensure most carefully that certain people who
consider the study of the truth beneath them should be driven out of
the sheepfold of Christ and no longer continue to disseminate error
from positions of authority. We refer in particular to those who in
this age, impelled by their sinfulness and supported by their
cunning, are attacking with unusual learning and malice the
discipline of the orthodox Faith, and who, moreover, by perverting
the import of Holy Scripture, are striving to rend the unity of the
Catholic Church and the seamless tunic of the Lord.

1. In assessing Our duty and the situation
now prevailing, We have been weighed upon by the thought that a
matter of this kind [i.e. error in respect of the Faith] is so grave
and so dangerous that the Roman Pontiff, who is the representative
upon earth of God and our God and Lord Jesus Christ, who holds the
fulness of power over peoples and kingdoms, who may judge all and be
judged by none in this world, may nonetheless be contradicted if he
be found to have deviated from the Faith. Remembering also that,
where danger is greater, it must more fully and more diligently be
counteracted, We have been concerned lest false prophets or others,
even if they have only secular jurisdiction, should wretchedly
ensnare the souls of the simple, and drag with them into perdition,
destruction and damnation countless peoples committed to their care
and rule, either in spiritual or in temporal matters; and We have
been concerned also lest it may befall Us to see the abomination of
desolation, which was spoken of by the prophet Daniel, in the holy
place. In view of this, Our desire has been to fulfill our Pastoral
duty, insofar as, with the help of God, We are able, so as to arrest
the foxes who are occupying themselves in the destruction of the
vineyard of the Lord and to keep the wolves from the sheepfolds, lest
We seem to be dumb watchdogs that cannot bark and lest We perish with
the wicked husbandman and be compared with the hireling.

2. Hence, concerning these matters, We have
held mature deliberation with our venerable brothers the Cardinals of
the Holy Roman Church; and, upon their advice and with their
unanimous agreement, we now enact as follows: In respect of each and
every sentence of excommunication, suspension, interdict and
privation and any other sentences, censures and penalties against
heretics or schismatics, enforced and promulgated in any way
whatsoever by any of Our predecessors the Roman Pontiffs, or by any
who were held to be such (even by their "litterae extravagantes"
i.e. private letters), or by the sacred Councils received by the
Church of God, or by decrees of the Holy Fathers and the statutes, or
by the sacred Canons and the Constitutions and Apostolic Ordinations
- all these measures, by Apostolic authority, We approve and renew,
that they may and must be observed in perpetuity and, if perchance
they be no longer in lively observance, that they be restored to it.
Thus We will and decree that the aforementioned sentences, censures
and penalties be incurred without exception by all members of the
following categories:

(i) Anysoever
who, before this date, shall have been detected to have deviated from
the Catholic Faith, or fallen into any heresy, or incurred schism, or
provoked or committed either or both of these, or who have confessed
to have done any of these things, or who have been convicted of
having done any of these things.

(ii) Anysoever
who (which may God, in His clemency and goodness to all, deign to
avert) shall in the future so deviate or fall into heresy, or incur
schism, or shall provoke or commit either or both of these.

(iii) Anysoever
who shall be detected to have so deviated, fallen, incurred, provoked
or committed, or who shall confess to have done any of these things,
or who shall be convicted of having done any of these things.

These sanctions, moreover, shall be incurred
by all members of these categories, of whatever status, grace, order,
condition and pre-eminence they may be, even if they be endowed with
the Episcopal, Archiepiscopal, Patriarchal, Primatial or some other
greater Ecclesiastical dignity, or with the honour of the Cardinalate
and of the Universal Apostolic See by the office of Legate, whether
temporary or permanent, or if they be endowed with even worldly
authority or excellence, as Count, Baron, Marquis, Duke, King or
Emperor.

All this We will and decree.

3. Nonetheless, We also consider it proper
that those who do not abandon evil deeds through love of virtue
should be deterred therefrom by fear of punishment; and We are aware
that Bishops, Archbishops, Patriarchs, Primates, Cardinals and
Legates, Counts, Barons, Marquises, Dukes, Kings and Emperors (who
ought to teach others and offer them a good example in order to
preserve them in the Catholic Faith), by failing in their duty sin
more gravely than others; since they not only damn themselves, but
also drag with them into perdition and into the pit of death
countless other people entrusted to their care or rule, or otherwise
subject to them, by their like counsel and agreement.

Hence, by this Our Constitution which is to
remain valid in perpetuity, in abomination of so great a crime (than
which none in the Church of God can be greater or more pernicious) by
the fulness of our Apostolic Power, We enact, determine, decree and
define (since the aforesaid sentences, censures and penalties are to
remain in efficacious force and strike all those whom they are
intended to strike) that:

(i) each and
every member of the following categories - Bishops, Archbishops,
Patriarchs, Primates, Cardinals, Legates, Counts, Barons, Marquises,
Dukes, Kings and Emperors - who:

(a)hitherto (as
We have already said) have been detected, or have confessed to have,
or have been convicted of having, deviated [i.e. from the Catholic
Faith], or fallen into heresy or incurred schism or provoked or
committed either or both of these;

(b) in the
future also shall [so] deviate, or fall into heresy, or incur schism,
or provoke or commit either or both of these, or shall be detected or
shall confess to have, or shall be convicted of having [so] deviated,
or fallen into heresy, or incurred schism, or provoked or committed
either or both of these;

(c) since in
this they are rendered more inexcusable than the rest in addition to
the aforementioned sentences, censures and penalties, shall also
automatically, without any exercise of law or application of fact, be
thoroughly, entirely and perpetually deprived of:- their Orders and
Cathedrals, even Metropolitan, Patriarchal and Primatial Churches,
the honour of the Cardinalate and the office of any embassy
whatsoever, not to mention both active and passive voting rights, all
authority, Monasteries, benefices and Ecclesiastical offices, be they
functional or sinecures, secular or religious of whatsoever Order,
which they may have obtained by any concessions whatsoever, or by
Apostolic Dispensations to title, charge and administration or
otherwise howsoever, and in which or to which they may have any right
whatsoever, likewise any whatsoever fruits, returns or annual
revenues from like fruits, returns and revenues reserved for and
assigned to them, as well as Countships, Baronies, Marquisates,
Dukedoms, Kingships and Imperial Power;

(ii) that,
moreover, they shall be unfit and incapable in respect of these
things and that they shall be held to be backsliders and subverted in
every way, just as if they had previously abjured heresy of this kind
in public trial; that they shall never at any time be able to be
restored, returned, reinstated or rehabilitated to their former
status or Cathedral, Metropolitan, Patriarchal and Primatial
Churches, or the Cardinalate, or other honour, any other dignity,
greater or lesser, any right to vote, active or passive, or
authority, or Monasteries and benefices, or Countships, Baronies,
Marquisates, Dukedoms, Kingships and positions of Imperial power; but
rather that they shall be abandoned to the judgement of the secular
power to be punished after due consideration, unless there should
appear in them signs of true penitence and the fruits of worthy
repentance, and, by the kindness and clemency of the See itself, they
shall have been sentenced to sequestration in any Monastery or other
religious house in order to perform perpetual penance upon the bread
of sorrow and the water of affliction;

(iii) that all
such individuals also shall be held, treated and reputed as such by
everyone, of whatsoever status, grade, order, condition or
pre-eminence he may be and whatsoever excellence may be his, even
Episcopal, Archiepiscopal, Patriarchal and Primatial or other greater
Ecclesiastical dignity and even the honour of the Cardinalate, or
secular, even the authority of Count, Baron, Marquis, Duke, King or
Emperor, and as such must be avoided and must be deprived of the
sympathy of all natural kindess.

4. [By this Our Constitution, which is to
remain valid in perpetuity, We] further enact, determine, decree and
define:] that those who shall have claimed to have the right of
patronage or of nominating suitable persons to Cathedral,
Metropolitan, Patriarchal and Primatial Churches, or to Monasteries
or other Ecclesiastical benefices which may be vacant by privation of
this kind (in order that those which shall have been vacant for a
long time may not be exposed to the unfit, but, having been rescued
from enslavement to heretics, may be granted to suitable persons who
would faithfully direct their people in the paths of justice), shall
be bound to present other persons suitable to Churches, Monasteries
and benefices of this kind, to Us, or to the Roman Pontiff at that
time existing, within the time determined by law, or by their
concordats, or by compacts entered into with the said See; and that,
if they shall not have done so when the said period shall have
elapsed, the full and free disposition of the aforesaid Churches,
Monasteries and benefices shall by the fulness of the law itself
devolve upon Us or upon the aforesaid Roman Pontiff.

5. [By this Our Constitution,] moreover,
[which is to remain valid in perpetuity, We] also [enact, determine,
decree and define:] as follows concerning those who shall have
presumed in any way knowingly to receive, defend, favour, believe or
teach the teaching of those so apprehended, confessed or convicted:

(i) they shall
automatically incur sentence of excommunication;

(ii) they shall
be rendered infamous;

(iii) they shall
be excluded on pain of invalidity from any public or private office,
deliberation, Synod, general or provincial Council and any conclave
of Cardinals or other congregation of the faithful, and from any
election or function of witness, so that they cannot take part in any
of these by vote, in person, by writings, representative or by any
agent;

(iv) they shall
be incapable of making a will;

(v) they shall
not accede to the succession of heredity;

(vi) no one
shall be forced to respond to them concerning any business;

(vii) if
perchance they shall have been Judges, their judgements shall have no
force, nor shall any cases be brought to their hearing;

(viii) if they
shall have been Advocates, their pleading shall nowise be received;

(ix) if they
shall have been Notaries, documents drafted by them shall be entirely
without strength or weight;

(x) clerics
shall be automatically deprived of each and every Church, even
Cathedral, Metropolitan, Patriarchal, Primatial, and likewise of
dignities, Monasteries, benefices and Ecclesiastical offices, and
even, as has been already mentioned, of qualifications, howsoever
obtained by them;

(xi) laymen,
moreover, in the same way - even if they be qualified, as already
described, or endowed with the aforesaid dignities or anysoever
Kingdoms, Duchies, Dominions, Fiefs and temporal goods possessed by
them;

(xii) finally,
all Kingdoms, Duchies, Dominions, Fiefs and goods of this kind shall
be confiscated, made public and shall remain so, and shall be made
the rightful property of those who shall first occupy them if these
shall be sincere in faith, in the unity of the Holy Roman Church and
under obedience to Us and to Our successors the Roman Pontiffs
canonically entering office.

6. In addition, [by this Our
Constitution, which is to remain valid in perpetuity We enact,
determine, decree and define:] that if ever at any time it shall
appear that any Bishop, even if he be acting as an Archbishop,
Patriarch or Primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church,
or, as has already been mentioned, any legate, or even the Roman
Pontiff, prior to his promotion or his elevation as Cardinal or
Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into
some heresy:

(i) the
promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by
the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void and
worthless;

(ii) it shall
not be possible for it to acquire validity (nor for it to be said
that it has thus acquired validity) through the acceptance of the
office, of consecration, of subsequent authority, nor through
possession of administration, nor through the putative enthronement
of a Roman Pontiff, or Veneration, or obedience accorded to such by
all, nor through the lapse of any period of time in the foregoing
situation;

(iii) it
shall not be held as partially legitimate in any way;

(iv) to any so
promoted to be Bishops, or Archbishops, or Patriarchs, or Primates or
elevated as Cardinals, or as Roman Pontiff, no authority shall have
been granted, nor shall it be considered to have been so granted
either in the spiritual or the temporal domain;

(v) each and all
of their words, deeds, actions and enactments, howsoever made, and
anything whatsoever to which these may give rise, shall be without
force and shall grant no stability whatsoever nor any right to
anyone;

(vi) those
thus promoted or elevated shall be deprived automatically, and
without need for any further declaration, of all dignity, position,
honour, title, authority, office and power.

7. Finally, [by this Our Constitution,
which is to remain valid in perpetuity, We] also [enact, determine,
define and decree]: that any and all persons who would have been
subject to those thus promoted or elevated if they had not previously
deviated from the Faith, become heretics, incurred schism or provoked
or committed any or all of these, be they members of anysoever of the
following categories:

(i) the clergy,
secular and religious;

(ii) the laity;

(iii) the
Cardinals, even those who shall have taken part in the election of
this very Pontiff previously deviating from the Faith or heretical or
schismatical, or shall otherwise have consented and vouchsafed
obedience to him and shall have venerated him;

(iv) Castellans,
Prefects, Captains and Officials, even of Our Beloved City and of the
entire Ecclesiastical State, even if they shall be obliged and
beholden to those thus promoted or elevated by homage, oath or
security; shall be permitted at any time to withdraw with impunity
from obedience and devotion to those thus promoted or elevated and to
avoid them as warlocks, heathens, publicans, and heresiarchs (the
same subject persons, nevertheless, remaining bound by the duty of
fidelity and obedience to any future Bishops, Archbishops,
Patriarchs, Primates, Cardinals and Roman Pontiff canonically
entering).

To the greater confusion, moreover, of those
thus promoted or elevated, if these shall have wished to prolong
their government and authority, they shall be permitted to request
the assistance of the secular arm against these same individuals thus
promoted or elevated; nor shall those who withdraw on this account,
in the aforementioned circumstances, from fidelity and obedience to
those thus promoted and elevated, be subject, as are those who tear
the tunic of the Lord, to the retribution of any censures or
penalties.

8. [The provisions of this Our Constitution,
which is to remain valid in perpetuity are to take effect]
notwithstanding any Constitutions, Apostolic Ordinations, privileges,
indults or Apostolic Letters, whether they be to these same Bishops,
Archbishops, Patriarchs, Primates and Cardinals or to any others, and
whatsoever may be their import and form, and with whatsoever
sub-clauses or decrees they may have been granted, even "motu
proprio" and by certain knowledge, from the fulness of the
Apostolic power or even consistorially or otherwise howsoever; and
even if they have been repeatedly approved and renewed, have been
included in the corpus of the Law or strengthened by any capital
conclaves whatsoever (even by oath) or by Apostolic confirmation or
by anysoever other endorsements or if they were legislated by
ourself. By this present document instead of by express mention, We
specially and expressly derogate the provisions of all these by
appropriate deletion and word-for-word substitution, so that these
may otherwise remain in force.

9. In order, however, that this document may
be brought to the notice of all whom it concerns, We wish it or a
transcription of it (to which, when made by the hand of the
undersigned Public Notary and fortified by the seal of any person
established in ecclesiastical dignity, We decree that complete trust
must be accorded) to be published and affixed in the Basilica of the
Prince of the Apostles in this City and on the doors of the Apostolic
Chancery and in the pavilion of the Campus Florae by some of our
couriers; [we] will [further] that a quantity of copies affixed in
this place should be distributed, and that publication and affixing
of this kind should suffice and be held as right, solemn and
legitimate, and that no other publication should be required or
awaited.

10. No one at all, therefore, may infringe
this document of our approbation, re-introduction, sanction, statute
and derogation of wills and decrees, or by rash presumption
contradict it. If anyone, however, should presume to attempt
this, let him know that he is destined to incur the wrath of Almighty
God and of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul.

Given in Rome at Saint Peter’s in the
year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1559, 15th February, in the
fourth year of our Pontificate.

+ I, Paul, Bishop of the Catholic Church of
Rome

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Note: This Constitution was reinforced in
his Papal Bull Inter multiplices [December 21, 1566] by Pope
St. Pius V

________________________________

Note: Those words in brackets signify the
Latin significance of the full authority of this Constitution above.

THE CONSEQUENCES
OF CUM EX APOSTOLATUS OFFICIO IN RELATION TO JORGE BERGOGLIO OR
FRANCIS

This section contains content used from authors: Brother Peter Dimond and Brother Michael Dimond of Most Holy Family Monastery / mostholyfamilymonastery.com

As the infallible bull Cum ex
apostolatus officio quoted above absolutely proves: someone
who calls himself the “Pope”,
even if unanimously elected by all the cardinals, but
who is a heretic: must be rejected by us as
an antipope. Therefore, this also proves that we must reject
Francis as an antipope since he rejects many Catholic dogmas and
the Natural law (such as Francis’
heresy on atheism and homosexuality) which no
one can reject and be a ‘material
heretic’ or in material heresy or
ignorant about.

The natural law is written on the heart
of all men, so that all men know that certain things are against
God’s law and that certain things are in accordance with the
natural law of charity, etc.

The natural law is the law that every
person knows by instinct from birth. It is planted by the Creator in
our heart, and everyone – even pagans who have never heard
about God or the true Catholic religion – receive this gift
from God. Examples of sins that break the natural law and that are
easy to recognize are abortion, murder, rape, theft, pedophilia,
homosexuality, slander, and lying. The conscience always convicts a
person who does these things and thus there can never be an excuse
for people who commit such sins.

Romans 2:14-16:
“For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature
those things that are of the law; these having not the law are a
law to themselves: Who shew the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them, and
their thoughts between themselves accusing, or also defending one
another, In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ, according to my gospel.”

As the Haydock Bible and Commentary
correctly explains about Romans 2:14-16:

“these
men are a law to themselves, and have it written in
their hearts, as to the existence of a God, and their reason tells
them, that many sins are unlawful...”

Francis’
Heresies on Atheism and Atheists

It
is infallibly taught in Sacred Scripture that everyone above the age
of reason can know with certainty that there is a God. They know this
by the things that are made: the trees, the grass, the sun, the moon,
the stars, etc. Anyone who is an atheist or agnostic (who believes
that God does not exist or is unknowable) is without excuse. The
natural law convicts him. This is a revealed truth of Sacred
Scripture.

Creation
itself bears witness that there is a God, that is, a living,
omnipotent and intelligent Being who created it. The apostle Paul
wrote to the saints in Rome that since the creation of the world,
God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and Godhead
– have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been
made (Romans 1:20); and David said that the heavens declare the glory
of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork (Psalm 19:1).
Therefore, since the existence of God is so clearly witnessed by His
works, those who deny His existence are without excuse. “The
fool has said in his heart, ‘there is no God’”
(Psalm 53:1).

God
defined infallibly, based on Romans 1, that the one true God can be
known with certitude by the things which have been made, and by the
natural light of human reason.

Romans
1:19-21: “Because that which is known of God is manifest in
them. For God hath manifested it unto them. For the invisible
things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made; His eternal power also,
and divinity: SO THAT THEY ARE INEXCUSABLE.”

The
Catholic Church has dogmatically defined the principle set forth in
Romans 1 – which directly contradicts the teaching of atheism
and agnosticism (and the Vatican II sect).

Pope
Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 3, On Revelation, Can.
1: “If anyone shall have said that the one true God, our
Creator and Lord, cannot be known with certitude by those things
which have been made, by the natural light of human reason: let him
be anathema.”

Pope
Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 3, On God the Creator,
Can. 1: “If anyone shall have denied the one true God,
Creator and Lord of visible and invisible things: let him be
anathema.”

Francis
respects regardless of beliefs

Yet
despite this dogmatic teaching based on Romans 1, in On Heaven and
Earth, pp. 12-13 Francis says he respects atheists and doesn’t
try to convert them. He also says that their “life is not
condemned”:

“I
do not approach the relationship in order to proselytize,
or convert the atheist; I respect him… nor
would I say that his life is condemned, because I am convinced
that I do not have the right to make a judgment about the honesty of
that person… every man is the image of God, whether he is a
believer or not. For that reason alone everyone has a series of
virtues, qualities, and a greatness of his own.” (Francis,
On Heaven and Earth, pp. 12-13)

An
atheists interviewed Francis for the Italian newspaper The
Republic. The interview was published on October 1, 2013. Francis
directly told the atheist that he has no intention of trying to
convert him. Francis rejects proselytism four different times in this
interview. Francis declared: “Proselytism is solemn
nonsense, it makes no sense.”

The
Catholic Church infallibly teaches that atheists are condemned and
that they must be converted to the Catholic faith for salvation.

Pope
Pius IV, profession of faith, Council of Trent, ex cathedra: “This
true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved…
I now profess and truly hold…”

Yet,
Antipope Francis is dominating the headlines around the world with
his assertion that people don’t need to believe in
God to get to heaven.

Antipope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (# 254), Nov. 24, 2013:
“Non-Christians[such as atheists], by God’s
gracious initiative, when they are faithful to their own
consciences, can live “justified by the
grace of God”, and thus be “associated to
the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ”… to the sacramental
dimension of sanctifying grace... to live our
own beliefs.”

Some
may argue that when Francis continued in his Evangelii Gaudium,
saying: “they [false religions, practices and beliefs] can be
channels which the Holy Spirit raises up in order to liberate
non-Christians from atheistic immanentism or from purely individual
religious experiences” – that this means they will be
converted. But we already know he doesn’t believe the Catholic
Faith is necessary for salvation, and that he rejects proselytizing
atheists; so that is not what he means. He is just saying it could
happen - “they can” - not that it will, which is why
he said: they can be justified if they follow their conscience.
And then he ended saying: “which can help us better to live
our own beliefs.” (Evangelii Gaudium, # 254)

His
position is of course, heresy and apostasy. He made a similar
statement in an open letter to the founder of the newspaper La
Repubblica.

Statements
like this only confirm what we’ve documented about the Vatican
II antipopes, and what was proven in the video “What
Francis Really Believes.”
I’ve read Francis’ entire letter. The headlines
accurately reflect what Antipope Francis wrote in his Evangelii
Gaudium.

Concerning
atheists, Francis wrote:

“First
of all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives
those who do not believe and do not seek faith. Given that - and
this is fundamental - God’s mercy has no limits if he who asks
for mercy does so in contrition and with a sincere heart, the
issue for those who do not believe in God is in obeying
their own conscience. In fact, listening and obeying it,
means deciding about what is perceived to be good or to be evil. The
goodness or the wickedness of our behavior depends on this decision.”
(“Pope” Francisco writes to La Repubblica: “An open
dialogue with non-believers”, 2013/09/11/)

Here
Francis clearly indicates that people who don’t believe in God
can be forgiven and saved if they obey their own conscience and
follow what they perceive to be good; and later in his “Evangelii
Gaudium” (254) he confirmed that this indeed was what he
meant. So don’t allow any liar to claim that Francis’
statement has been misrepresented. It has not been misrepresented as
Antipope Francis himself confirmed.

That’s
an astounding heresy because it’s a basic dogma of Catholicism
that faith is necessary for salvation. This is a fundamental issue.
As Hebrews 11:6 says, “…without faith it is impossible
to please God.”

The
dogma of the Church, that no one can be justified, saved or pleasing
to God without faith was taught throughout history and solemnly
declared by the Council of Trent and Vatican I. Both Councils
repeated the truth of Hebrews 11:6. Of course, it’s also a
dogma that one must have the Catholic faith to be saved, and that no
one can be saved outside the Catholic Church. These truths have been
defined by many popes.

Francis’
heresy trashes and denies all of those proclamations, but it gets
even worse, because there are specific dogmatic definitions against
the notion that atheists can be excused or saved.

Based
on Romans 1:20, which teaches that all who deny the existence of God
are inexcusable, Vatican I solemnly declared in Canon 1, On
Revelation, “If anyone shall have said that the one true
God, our Creator and Lord, cannot be known with certitude by those
things which have been made, by the natural light of human reason:
let him be anathema.”

Therefore,
the position that atheists can be excused for not recognizing what is
clear from the natural light of human reason, namely, that there is a
God, is an anathematized heresy.

In
Canon 1, On God the Creator, Vatican I also declared, “If
anyone shall have denied the one true God, Creator and Lord of
visible and invisible things, let him be anathema.”

That
means that anyone who denies God or His existence, is specifically
anathematized.

Francis’
statements rejects these dogmatic definitions, in addition to all the
others previously mentioned. People need to recognize the
significance of this heresy.

The
truth that one must have faith is a basic and fundamental teaching of
Christianity. His statement that people can be saved without faith is
equivalent to denying Jesus is God, that Mary is the Mother of God,
or that Jesus rose again. They are all basic dogmas.

He
has openly repudiated the teaching of Christianity, the necessity of
faith. He is a complete heretic, not that more proof was required,
but Francis’ statement in the interview, and later confirmed in
his “Apostolic Exhortation” addressed to the “universal
Church,” is another proof that he is not the pope, but a
heretical non-Catholic antipope.

The
organization he represents, the Vatican II sect, is not the Catholic
Church, but the End Times Counter Church.

Francis
says he respects those who favor the abomination of same sex
“marriage”, and says he never was disrespectful to
sodomites and perverts. Francis also says he does not “judge”
homosexuals and that a person who is gay can have “good will”.
Discussing homosexuals (people in general and clergy), Francis said
in July 2013:

“If
a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I
to judge them?”

Francis
claims to be the first Judge in the Catholic Church, a pope, and yet
says “who am I to judge” homosexuals. It is shocking and
a total inversion of Catholic morals… It is not surprising
that Francis believes such horrible things when he idolizes man.

Also
notice the following interesting statements Francis makes about gay
“marriage” and homosexuals.

Francis,
On Heaven and Earth, p. 117: “When the head of the
Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, did not
appeal the judge’s opinion right away authorizing a [same-sex]
wedding, I felt that I had something to say, to inform; I saw myself
with an obligation to state my opinion. It was the first time in
eighteen years as bishop that I criticized a government official. If
you analyze the two declarations that I formulated, at no time did I
speak about homosexuals nor did I make any derogatory reference
toward them… Macri told me that these were his convictions; I
respected him for that, but the head of the Government does not
have to transfer his personal convictions to law. In no moment did I
speak disrespectfully about homosexuals…”

Here
we see that Francis says he respects those who favor the abomination
of same sex “marriage”, and that he never was
disrespectful to sodomites and perverts.

Francis
greets Argentine Pro-gay “marriage” president Nestor
Kirchner

Francis
also mentions how he allowed the pro-gay “marriage”
supporting president of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, to preside over a
“Catholic” memorial service to honor deceased “Catholic
priests” and seminarians:

Francis,
Conversations, p. 145: “I even asked him to preside over
the ceremony when he arrived at the church…”

Later
when the apostate president died, Francis immediately offered a
public “requiem mass” for him.

Francis
also allowed politicians who are vocal pro-abortion and gay
“marriage” supporters to receive “communion”
at his installation “mass”.

LifeNews,
Mars 20, 2013: “Pro-abortion Biden and Pelosi Received
Communion at Mass for Antipope Francis - The communion issue was
exacerbated when, despite their pro-abortion views, Vice President
Joe Biden and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi both received
communion at the Mass to celebrate Pope Francis’ inauguration.
Biden’s office confirmed to the Washington Times that he had
received communion and reporters in the White House presidential
reporting pool confirmed in an email to LifeNews that Pelosi had
received it as well. … “At a Mass during which
our new Pope emphasized the duty public officials – and all the
rest of us – have to protect the weakest among us, Joe
Biden and Nancy Pelosi have the audacity to receive Communion while
publicly renouncing their responsibility to protect the weakest among
us.”

It
has now also been documented and confirmed by credible witnesses that
Francis favored homosexual civil unions when he was in Argentina.
He just didn’t want a homosexual civil union to be called a
marriage.

CNN,
March 21, 2013: “Behind closed doors, pope supported civil
unions in Argentina, activist says - Less than an hour after he
fired off an angry letter to Catholic Church leaders about their
handling of Argentina’s same-sex marriage debate, Marcelo
Marquez says his phone rang. … "He [Francis, then the
“archbishop” of Buenos Aires] told me. … ‘I’m
in favor of gay rights and in any case, I also favor civil unions for
homosexuals, but I believe that Argentina is not yet ready
for a gay marriage law," said Marquez, a gay rights activist, a
self-described devout Catholic and a former theology professor at a
Catholic seminary.”

HuffingtonPost,
March 20, 2013: “Pope Francis Advocated For Civil Unions For
Gay Couples In 2010 As Argentina’s Cardinal Bergoglio -
Pope Francis supported civil unions for gay couples as recently as
2010. … As Argentina’s legislature debated President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s bill to allow gay marriage,
Francis -- then known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- suggested
to his bishops that the Church support civil unions as a compromise
of sorts. At the time, civil unions were already legal in parts of
Argentina ABC noted. Civil unions were the “lesser of two
evils,” said Sergio Rubin, authorized biographer for
then-Cardinal Bergoglio, according to The New York Times. “He
[Bergoglio] wagered on a position of greater dialogue with society.”

It
has also been reported that Francis still favors homosexual civil
unions as “Pope”.

DailyMail,
March 10, 2014: “Pope to stop condemning same-sex civil
partnerships hints leading cardinal in move which could be step
towards Catholic gay marriage - Pope Francis has suggested that
the Vatican could support gay civil unions in the future, according
to one of the church’s most senior cardinals. Cardinal Timothy
Dolan said that the pontiff wants the Catholic Church to study
same-sex unions, ‘rather than condemn them’. Cardinal
Dolan told American television that Francis wants church leaders to
‘look into it and see the reasons that have driven them.’
… In an interview to mark his first year in the church’s
top job, Pope Francis last week reaffirmed the Vatican’s
opposition to gay marriage but indicated that some types of civil
unions could be acceptable to the church. The Pope restated the
church’s teaching that ‘marriage is between a man and a
woman,’ but added ‘We have to look at different cases and
evaluate them in their variety.’ Some countries justify civil
unions as a way to provide the same economic and legal rights to
cohabitating couples as those who are married, the Pope said in the
interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. …
Francis’ comments are the first time that a Pope has
indicated even tentative acceptance of civil unions, according to
Vatican watchers. … In recognition for the perceived
change in stance Francis appeared on the cover of gay magazine The
Advocate as their person of the year.”

Sergio
Rubin is an Argentine journalist and authorized biographer of
Francis. He wrote (in 2010) the only biography of Jorge Bergoglio
(now Antipope Francis) available at the time of his election. Rubin
testified that while taking a strong stand against same-sex marriage,
Bergoglio raised the possibility in 2010 with his bishops in
Argentina that they support the idea of civil unions as a compromise
position. On
Gay Unions, a Pragmatist Before He Was a Pope.
The article went on to say that “a majority of the bishops
voted to overrule him”.

In
addition to Marquez and Rubin’s testimonies, two other
Argentine journalists and two senior officials of the Argentine
“bishops conference”, supported Rubin’s account:

NCR
Online, Apr. 12, 2013: “On March 19, The New York Times
reported that when Argentina was gearing up for a bitter national
debate on gay marriage in 2009 and 2010, Bergoglio quietly
favored a compromise solution that would have included civil unions
for same-sex couples. … On this score, I was told
by three sources in Argentina that the Times basically got it right:
Bergoglio did, in fact, favor civil unions. That
was confirmed on background by two senior officials of the
bishops’ conference in Argentina, both of whom worked with
Bergoglio and took part in the behind-the-scenes discussions as the
conference tried to shape its position. "Bergoglio supported
civil unions," one of those officials told me. Mariano
de Vedia, a veteran journalist for La Nación, has covered
church/state issues in Argentina for years and said he
could confirm Bergoglio’s position had been correctly described
in the Times account. Guillermo Villarreal, a Catholic
journalist in Argentina, said it was well known at the time
that Bergoglio’s moderate position was opposed by Archbishop
Héctor Rubén Aguer of La Plata, the leader of
the hawks.”

This
is heresy. It means that Francis approved perverted and abominable
sexual behavior that is condemned in Scripture and Catholic teaching.
His stance is no different at all from endorsing abortion under the
condition that the state does not give abortion special or privileged
status by using state funds for it.

All
of this without a doubt proves that Francis is certainly not a
Catholic. He’s not a pope, he’s not a lover of truth and
of the true God, he’s not honest, he’s not seeking to
convert souls to the one true faith, etc. As he cannot defend openly
gay pseudo-marriage, he uses relativism to defend the “gay
agenda”, reducing the issue of homosexuality to the mere
political lobby. “If a person is gay and seeking God, who am I
to judge her?”, says Antipope Francis.

Since
Francis idolizes man, it’s no wonder he endorses such
blasphemies and perversions. One hear the “You can’t
judge!” heresy so many times it makes one sick. Heretics love
this evil phrase and will recite it every time someone charitably
rebukes their sinful lifestyle. They don’t seem to grasp the
fact that God has already judged (Leviticus 20:13; 1 Corinthians
6:9).

More
on Francis’ Heresies on Homosexuals and Homosexuality

Antipope
Francis recently gave a shocking interview to the editor of the
so-called Jesuit journal, La Civilta Cattolica. He was
interviewed by Antonio Spadaro on behalf of La Civilta Cattolica,
Thinking Faith, America and several other major Jesuit
journals around the world. The interview was conducted in Italian.
After the Italian text was officially approved, a team of five
independent experts were commissioned to produce the English
translation, which is also published by America.

On
p. 7 of the interview, Francis is talking about homosexuals. He says:

“In
Buenos Aires I used to receive letters from homosexuals persons who
are ‘socially wounded’ because they tell me that they
feel like the church has always condemned them. But the church
does not want to do this. During the return flight from Rio de
Janeiro I said that if a homosexual person is of good will
and is in search of God, I am no one to judge.” He goes
on to say, “it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the
life of a person.” Thinking Faith, Sept. 19, 2013, p. 7.

He
then re-quotes something he said previously about homosexuals:

“A
person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of
homosexuality. I replied with another question: “‘Tell
me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of
this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’
We must always consider the person.” Thinking Faith,
Sept. 19, 2013, p. 8.

This
is wicked heresy! First he says, he’s “no one to
judge” and that “the church does not want to do this
[that is, condemn the homosexuals].” That’s interesting
because the First Vatican Council declared that a Pope (a true Pope)
is the supreme judge of the faithful. Francis doesn’t judge or
condemn anyone because he’s not a Catholic and he’s not
the Pope. Also, to say that the Church does not condemn homosexuals
is equivalent to saying that God does not condemn homosexuals. There
is no difference between the two.

Vatican
Council I – A true Pope is Supreme Judge

Second,
he’s discussing homosexuals. He says he’s
no one to judge, and he teaches that God and the Church doesn’t
condemn them or reject them. That indicates quite clearly, that
homosexuals could be justified despite their wickedness and
abominable behavior. And, we know Francis is including active
homosexuals in his comments, because he makes no distinction between
people who merely consider themselves to have a homosexual
orientation, and those who engage in homosexual behavior.

Indeed,
we know he’s talking about those who engage in homosexual acts
because Francis refers to homosexuals who have
claimed to him that they feel excluded. That obviously includes
active homosexuals. In fact, in this very context Francis speaks of
confession. “This is also the great benefit of confession as a
sacrament: evaluating case by case and discerning what is the best
thing to do for a person who seeks God and grace.” Thinking
Faith, Sept. 19, 2013, p. 8.

The
Vatican II sect would only consider homosexual acts, not the
homosexual orientation, matters for confession. (both
are equally wrong, however).

And
Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) and John Paul II both approved of the
following statement concerning homosexuality:

“Sacred
Scripture condemns homosexual acts “as a serious
depravity... (cf. Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10). This
judgment of Scripture does not of course permit us to conclude that
all those who suffer from this anomaly [homosexuality] are
personally responsible for it, but it does attest to the fact
that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered”. …

The
Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience of March 28, 2003,
approved the present Considerations, adopted in the Ordinary Session
of this Congregation, and ordered their publication.

Rome,
from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
June 3, 2003, Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and his Companions,
Martyrs.

Joseph
Card. Ratzinger

Prefect”

(Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Considerations Regarding
Proposals To Give Legal Recognition To Unions Between Homosexual
Persons, nr. 4, 2003)

By
the way, Scripture is quite clear that the homosexual orientation is
unnatural and results from mortal sin, idolatry and apostasy. See
Romans chapter 1.

Romans
1:26-27: “For this cause God delivered them up to shameful
affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that
use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also,
leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one
towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and
receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.”

Francis
then speaks in the very same context of gay “marriage”.
That obviously refers to, and includes practicing homosexuals.
Francis also says in this very context, “that we must consider
their situation” and look upon things with “mercy”
which come in the context of his reference to confession, and which
can only have meaning if he’s referring to practicing
homosexuals, since the Vatican II sect would only consider homosexual
acts, not the homosexual orientation, matters for confession.

Francis
also applied his comments to both “homosexual persons”
and to “homosexuality.”

Read
carefully in context, there is no doubt that Francis’ teaching
that he does not judge, condemn or reject homosexuals or
homosexuality including practicing homosexuals. That is totally evil
and it is heresy.

Vatican
I – a Pope is the supreme judge of the faithful –
Francis NO POPE!

Based
upon Sacred Scripture, the Church has always taught that those who
practice homosexuality, and have a homosexual orientation are
condemned, judged and rejected.

1
Corinthians 6:9 explicitly teaches that
homosexuals are rejected from the Kingdom of God and Romans 1:32
teaches that “not only they that do them, but
they also that consent to them that do them…
are worthy of death.” That means they are rejected and
condemned, the opposite of what Francis teaches.

Romans
1:32: “Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand
that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they
that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.”

So
not only the people who are homosexuals are worthy of death, but also
those who promote this sinful lifestyle! So this is a clear warning
that homosexuals are judged and that they will be judged.

Pope
St. Pius V, Horrendum Illud Scelus, August 30, 1568: “We
establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or
regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present
law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity
and ecclesiastical benefit, and having been degraded by an
ecclesiastical judge, let him be immediately delivered to the
secular authority to be put to death, as mandated by law as
the fitting punishment for laymen who have sunk into this abyss.”
(In Bullarium Romanum, Rome: Typographia Reverendae Camerae
Apostolicae, Mainardi, 1738, chap. 3, p. 33)

Francis’
position is heretical. It constitutes a new false Gospel.

The
Church calls homosexuals out of their wickedness and out of their
perversion. It calls them to convert. But as they are, they are in a
state of condemnation.

Francis’
Heresies on the Jews

Jews
reject that Jesus Christ is God, but Jesus says in John 8:24: “For
if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.”

Francis
and the Jews

The
Catholic Church infallibly teaches that you must believe in
Jesus Christ and have the Catholic faith for salvation.

Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, The Athanasian Creed, Sess. 8,
Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes to be saved,
needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one
preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish
in eternity.”

It
teaches that it’s a mortal sin to observe or practice Judaism.
Jews practice the Old Law and reject the Trinity and the Divinity of
Christ in addition to calling Christ a deceiver or a complete myth
invented by the Christians – yet, despite this, many so-called
Christians actually claim that the Jews are “good”, or
that they can be saved or that they remain “God’s chosen”
people.

The
Catholic Church teaches the following about the cessation of the Old
Law and about all who continue to observe it:

Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, 1441, ex cathedra:
“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and teaches
that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, the Mosaic law,
which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments…
after our Lord’s coming… ceased, and the
sacraments of the New Testament began, and that whoever, even
after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and
submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in
Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. All,
therefore, who after that time (the promulgation of the Gospel)
observe circumcision and the Sabbath
(not to be mistaken with the Christian Sabbath) and
the other requirements of the law [that is, practicing Jews],
the
holy Roman Church declares alien to the Christian faith and not in
the least fit to participate in eternal salvation.”

But
in his astounding Apostolic Exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium,”
which Francis, by the way addressed to the universal Church, he
professes that the Jewshave a valid covenant
with God (247), contrary to the teaching of the Catholic
Church in the dogmatic Council of Florence, as we just saw
above.

Evangelii
Gaudium

Antipope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (# 247), Nov. 24, 2013: “We
hold the Jewish peoplein special regard because
their covenant with God has never been
revoked...”

Francis
went on to say: “As Christians, we cannot consider Judaism
as a foreign religion; nor do we include the Jews among those
called to turn from idols [false gods] and to serve the
true God [i.e., Francis says Jews are not to be considered to
be as those who turn from false gods in order to serve the true
God Jesus Christ and the Trinity since he already believes they serve
the true God!]... With them, we believe in the one God who acts
in history, and with them we accept his revealed word.”
(Evangelii Gaudium, # 247)

This
is apostasy; it is a denial of Christ. It alone
proves that Francis is not the Pope since he totally denies, rejects,
and spits upon the Council of Florence.

Pope
Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13), Aug. 15, 1832: “With the
admonition of the apostle that ‘there is one God, one faith,
one baptism’ (Eph. 4:5) may those fear who contrive the
notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any
religion whatever. They should consider the testimony of Christ
Himself that ‘those who are not with Christ are against Him,’
(Lk. 11:23) and that they disperse unhappily who do not gather
with Him.Therefore, ‘without a doubt, they
will perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and
inviolate’ (Athanasian Creed).”

It
is true that some aspects of the Old Covenant are still valid because
they are included in the New and Eternal Covenant of Jesus Christ,
such as the ten commandments, but the Old Covenant itself (the
agreement between God and the Jewish people) ceased with the coming
of the Messiah. Therefore, to say that the Old Covenant is still
valid is to assert that Judaism is a true religion and that Jesus
Christ is not really the Messiah. It is also, as has been noted, to
deny defined Catholic dogma, such as the teaching of The Council of
Florence, which defined ex cathedra that the Old Law is now
dead and that those who practice it (namely, the Jews) cannot be
saved.

Pope
Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum (# 61): “The first
consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were
abrogated by the coming of Christand that they can no
longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.”

The
destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 A.D. by the Romans, leaving
only the Western Wall, has always been understood by Catholics to
signify God’s judgment on the Jews. The Jews pray at the
Western Wall as the holiest site in Judaism. The destruction of the
Temple prohibited Jews from being able to offer sacrifice, which
meant that their religion had come to an end. The destruction of the
Temple was God’s powerful sign to the Jews that the Messiah had
come, that the Old Covenant had ceased, and that the Temple had been
replaced by the Catholic Church. So when a Jew prays at the Western
Wall, or leaves a prayer there, or participates in Jewish religious
services, it is a denial that Jesus is the Messiah; it is an
affirmation that he holds that the Old Covenant is still in force;
and it is a pitiful and sad attempt to ignore God’s very
obvious sign that the Jews must abandon the destroyed Temple (the
obsolete faith) and enter the Catholic Church.

John
Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis praying at the Wailing or Western
Wall in Jerusalem

But
even though, as we have seen, “the Mosaic law, which are
divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments…
after our Lord’s coming… ceased,” Antipope
Francis endorses the false religion of Judaism and prays in Jewish
synagogues:

Francis,
Conversations With Jorge Bergoglio, p. 208: “Not long ago I
was in a synagogue taking part in a ceremony. I prayed a lot and,
while praying, I heard a phrase from one of the books of wisdom
that had slipped my mind: ‘Lord, may I bear mockery in
silence.’ It gave me much peace and joy.”

Contrary
to Francis’ apostasy, the Catholic Church forbids
Catholics to enter Jewish synagogues or the meetinghouses of the
heretics “to join in prayer with them”.

Third
Council of Constantinople, 680-681: “If any ecclesiastic
or layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jewsor the meetinghouses of the heretics to join in prayer
with them, let them be deposed and deprived of communion.
If any bishop or priest or deacon shall join in prayer with heretics,
let him be suspended from communion.”

Council
of Carthage: “One must neither pray nor sing
psalms with heretics, and whoever shall communicate
with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church,
[i.e., heretics and schismatics such as Jews, Muslims, Protestants
etc.] whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated.”

Francis
also teaches that the people of Israel continue to be the
“Chosen People” of God.

Francis,
On Heaven and Earth, p. 188: “The [Vatican II] Church
officially recognizes that the People of Israel continue to be the
Chosen People. Nowhere does it say: ‘You lost the game, now
it is our turn.’ It is a recognition of the People of Israel.”

This
clearly means that Francis holds that people who reject Jesus
Christ are the chosen people in God’s sight. This is a
blasphemy against God.

This
heresy on the Jews was also taught in Vatican II itself and by the
other previous Vatican II antipopes.

Antipope
Paul VI, Vatican II Declaration, Nostra Aetate (#4): “Although
the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be
presented as rejected or cursed by God, as if such
views followed from the holy scriptures.”

For
instance, Antipope John Paul II has repeatedly repudiated this dogma,
a dogma taught by the Catholic Church for 2000 years, defined
infallibly by the Council of Florence, and affirmed clearly by Pope
Benedict XIV.

In
an address to Jews in West Germany, Nov. 17, 1980, Antipope John
Paul II spoke of quote, “the Old Covenant, never
revoked by God…”

Antipope
John Paul II, New Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph
121: “… for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.”

In
2001, the Pontifical Biblical Commission released a book entitled The
Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible.
This book rejects the dogma that the Old Covenant has ceased. It
teaches that the Old Covenant is still valid, and that the Jews’
wait for the Coming of the Messiah (which was part of the Old
Covenant) is also still valid. It teaches that Jesus doesn’t
have to be seen as the prophesied Messiah; it is possible to see Him,
as the Jews do, as not the Messiah and not the Son of God.

In
section II, A, 5, The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in
the Christian Bible states:

“Jewish
messianic expectation is not in vain...”

In
section II, A, 7, The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in
the Christian Bible states:

“…to
read the Bible as Judaism does necessarily involves an
implicit acceptance of all its presuppositions,
that is,
the full acceptance of what Judaism is, in particular, the authority
of its writings and rabbinic traditions, which
exclude faith in Jesus as Messiah and Son of God…
Christians
can and ought to admit that the
Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one…”

So,
according to this Vatican book, Christians can and ought to admit
that the Jewish position that Jesus is not the Son of God and the
prophesied Messiah is a possible one! The
preface for this totally heretical book was written by none other
than Joseph Ratzinger, the now Benedict XVI.

This
is antichrist!

1
John 2:22: “… he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ?
He is antichrist…”

Heresy
is a rejection of a dogma of the Catholic Faith; apostasy is a
rejection of the entire Christian Faith. This book contains both
heresy and apostasy, fully endorsed by Benedict XVI.

When
Vatican II teaches that Jews, despite not belonging to the Church,
are not to be considered as rejected by God, that means they remain
in a valid covenant with God and can be saved. That’s also how
the apostates in the Vatican II sect understood and implemented
Nostra Aetate. Francis’ heresy on the Old Covenant is simply a
reiteration of the doctrine of Nostra Aetate and the statements of
the previous antipopes. It is also a further formalization of that
heresy as the official doctrine of the Counter Church, for Francis
teaches it openly in an Apostolic Exhortation addressed to the entire
Church.

In
contrast to Francis’ and Vatican II’s official and
heretical teaching that the Jewish people are “not rejected by
God” as His “Chosen People” after the
promulgation of the gospel, the Catholic Church rejects,
condemns, anathematizes and repudiates the Jews
as alienated from God and salvation “unless they
are joined to the Church [and believe in Jesus Christ] before the end
of their lives.” (Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, 1441, ex
cathedra)

Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Bull Cantate Domino, 1442, ex
cathedra: “… the holy Roman Church, founded on the words
of our Lord and Savior, firmly believes, professes and preaches
one true God, almighty, immutable and eternal, Father, Son
and Holy Spirit… Therefore it [the
Church] condemns, rejects,
anathematizesand declares to be outside
the Body of Christ [and of God], which is the Church,
whoever holds opposing or contrary views.”

Without
even going into details, it should be obvious to all that the
statement of Nostra Aetate (#4) and of Francis in On Heaven
and Earth, p. 188 is heretical. Jews are rejected by God,
because all who reject Jesus Christ are denied by God. This is a
truth that Our Lord specifically revealed in Sacred Scripture.

Matthew
10:33: “But he that shall deny mebefore men,
I will also denybefore my Father who is in
heaven.”

The
word “deny” means to reject or to repudiate. Look it up
in the dictionary. Therefore, Antipope Francis and the Vatican II
sect and its antipopes are denying the divinely revealed truth
of Matthew 10:33: he who denies Our Lord is rejected by Him. Thus,
without even going farther into detail, one should easily see that
Francis and Vatican II teaches blatant heresy. But it gets even worse
when one considers this in more detail.

Consider
the following. Council of Florence Bull Cantate Domino (quoted
above) is a dogmatic definition on individuals who have a view on
Our Lord Jesus Christ or the Holy Trinity that is contrary to that of
the Church (e.g., Jews, etc.). The Council of Florence
solemnly defines that whoever has a view contrary to the Church’s
teaching on Our Lord and the Trinity (e.g., the Jews) is condemnedand rejected. Note: the Council is not merely
saying that the view contrary to Our Lord is rejected and
condemned, but that the individual (e.g., the Jew) is condemnedand rejected!

Francis
– Jews not rejected by God

Francis’
Other Heresies on the Jews

Francis,
On Heaven and Earth, p. 37: “There also exists the
ministerial intercession of a rabbi or a priest who prays or asks
for the health of another and it is granted. What gives credibility
to a person who is healing according to the law of God is simplicity,
humility and the absence of a spectacle.”

So
Francis believes that Jewish rabbis who are rejected by God have a
true spiritual ministry of intercession “according to the law
of God”.

Francis,
On Heaven and Earth, p. 220: Francis says to Jewish Rabbi Skorka:
“I did not forget how you invited me twice to pray and to
speak in the synagogue, and I invited you to speak to my
seminarians about values.”

So
Francis happily explains how he invited the Christ rejecting
Jewish Rabbi Skorka to speak of values to his seminarians.

On
the same page Francis also mentioned his interrreligious apostasy and
explains how he, as “Archbishop” of Buenos Aires, brought
about “changes” that recognized and benefited Christ
rejecting false religions:

Francis,
Francis, On Heaven and Earth, p. 220: “I do not know if you
remember, when I began the Te Deum Masses as Archbishop, I came down
with the nuncio accompanying the president and we walked him to the
door. All of you, representatives from other faiths, would remain in
your place, like puppets in an exhibition. I changed that: now
the president goes up and greets all of the representatives of the
other faiths. … but the representatives of other faiths
also present their own prayers [at his interreligious prayer
meetings]. Now there is greater participation.”

Here
we clearly see that Antipope Francis directly approves of that
members of all kinds of false religions are allowed to pray to the
Devil in his own Church, which is total apostasy, and a mortal sin,
and as if this is not evil enough, he is also directly instrumental
in getting them there to pray to the Devil.

It
would be laudable if this was done with an intention of converting
them to Christ. However, as we have seen, Francis doesn’t
believe in proselyting or converting anyone. For as Francis recently
said in an interview to Eugenio Scalfari, an atheist, when being
asked at one point if he was trying to convert him, Francis replied:

“Convert
you?”
“Proselytism
is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense.”
The
Repubblica,
October 1, 2013

Thus
all of Francis’ words and actions are merely concerned about
“respecting” man and “respecting” their false
religions – and trashing all about God’s true religion in
the process. This is apostasy.

In
the cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 15, 1998 Francis
held an interreligious service to honor deceased Jews. During this
meeting, Francis said to the Jews: “we are all brothers,
because we have the seal of God in our hearts”. The seal of God
is baptism – which Jews reject.

The
seal of God is Baptism, which the Jews reject

In
September 2004, Francis participated in a Jewish service inside a
synagogue and on November 9, 2005 Francis had another service in a
Basilica commemorating deceased Jews. This included Francis lighting
a candle in “honor” of them – i.e., the deceased
condemned Jews.

The
Catholic Church since the beginning has rejected the idea that an
unbeliever in Christ could be saved. This is why, throughout the
whole history of the Church, prayer, sacrifice and Christian burial
were not allowed for unbelievers (and even catechumens) who died
without faith and baptism.

Fr.
William Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 3, pp.
14-15: “If there were not a constant traditionin the Fathers that the Gospel message of ‘Unless
a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost [baptism] he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God’ is to be
taken absolutely… the tradition in fact is there;
and it is likely enough to be found so constant as to
constitute revelation.”

Therefore,
one cannot attend non-Catholic services, funerals or weddings, let
alone to pacify friends, relatives or co-workers and give
non-Catholics the false impression that non-Catholic lives can lead
to salvation or that non-Catholic weddings or religious services are
pleasing to God.

Also,
one definitely cannot go to the wedding reception or the funeral
events after the services. To do so is to give the non-Catholics the
same false impression: that their marriage is pleasing to God or that
people can be saved as non-Catholics. A true Catholic must completely
shun all events associated with non-Catholic funerals and weddings,
including the reception events afterward.

Pope
Pius XI, MortaliumAnimos (# 9), Jan. 6, 1928:
“Everyone knows that John himself, the Apostle of love,
who seems to reveal in his Gospel the secrets of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, and who never ceased to impress on the memories of his
followers the new commandment ‘Love one another,’
altogether forbadeany intercourse with those
who professed a mutilated and corrupt form of Christ’s
teaching: ‘If any man come to you and bring not this
doctrine, receive him not into the house nor say to him: God speed
you’ (II John 10).”

Francis
attending a Jewish Rosh Hashanah service

In
2007, Francis attended Jewish Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)
services at a synagogue in Argentina. He told the Jewish congregation
during his visit that he went to the synagogue to examine his heart,
“like a pilgrim, together with you, my elder brothers”.

On
July 7, 2008 Francis endorsed Rabbi Sergio Bergman’s books.
Francis called him a “believer” and said: “his job
is the one of a rabbi who as our master helps us”.

Francis’
elder brothers

On
June 7, 2010: Francis visited the Jewish Center in Argentina and
called Jews “our elder brothers” and “the chosen
people of God”. He also prayed in front of list of deceased
Jews in order to “honor” them. Francis said: “That
reminder is another link of pain, persecution and blood that the
chosen people of God have suffered in history. I thank the Lord
that on this day I am allowed to share part of the way with our
elder brothers...” Again, Jews are no longer God’s
chosen people since they reject Christ: “after our Lord’s
coming [the old law, i.e., the Jewish religion]… ceased”
(Dogmatic Council of Florence).

On
October 11, 2012 Francis gave Rabbi Abraham Skorka – who is a
Christ denier and a well-known supporter of homosexuality – an
honorary degree at a “Catholic” university. After the
rabbi received the degree, he said: “We are waiting for the
Messiah [that is, they are still waiting for him to come whereas
Christ the Messiah has already come], but in order for him to come
we have to prepare the land…”

“Waiting
for the Messiah”

So
the Rabbi explicitly rejected the Messiah Jesus Christ right
in front of Francis.

On
November 12, 2012 Francis was the keynote speaker and took active
part in another Jewish religious ceremony in the cathedral in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. This Jewish religious ceremony was again dedicated
to honor deceased Jews. The final candle commemorating deceased Jews
was jointly lit by a rabbi and Francis.

Francis
Commemorating Deceased Jews in Buenos Aires Cathedral

Under
Francis’ direction, memorial services honoring deceased Jews
have been celebrated in so-called Catholic churches in Argentina
every year since 1998.

To
take part in a Jewish religious ceremony for deceased, condemned Jews
who died as enemies of Jesus Christ and of His Church is complete
apostasy from the Catholic faith.

Apostolic
Constitutions, Canon 65: “If any one, either of the
clergy or laity, enters into a synagogue of the Jews or
heretics to pray, let him be deprived and suspended.”

Council
of Laodicea, Canon 33 (A.D. 364): “No one shall join
in prayers with heretics or schismatics.”

Apostolic
Constitutions, Canon 45: “Let a bishop,
presbyter, or deacon, who has only prayed with heretics, be
excommunicated: but if he has permitted them to perform
any clerical office, let him be deposed.”

On
March 13, 2013 just a few hours after Francis was elected Antipope,
he sent out a greeting letter to the Christ-rejecting Chief Rabbi of
Rome.

On
March 25, 2013 Francis sent a telegram to Rome’s chief rabbi
for Passover. This message constituted heresy and apostasy, because
in it Antipope Francis endorsed the false religion of Judaism, and he
encouraged the Jews to observe their rites. Francis said that he
esteems Jews and asked them to pray for him. He also asked that God
“continue to deliver you from all evil” even though the
Rabbi rejects Jesus – the only One who can deliver us
from evil (cf. Matthew 6:13). L’ Osservatore Romano,
March 27, 2013, p. 4.

In
his June 24, 2013 address to members of the International Jewish
committee, Francis called Jews “believers”, and asked
Jews to pray for him.

Francis
calls Jews “believers” at International Jewish
Committee

Pope
Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 5), June 29, 1896: “Whoever
is separated from the Church is united to an adulteress. He has
cut himself off from the promises of the Church, and he who leaves
the Church of Christ cannot arrive at the rewards of Christ.”

Antipope
Francis Practices Judaism

Over
the last few days Antipope Francis hosted his friend, Jewish Rabbi,
Abraham Skorka at the Vatican.

Antipope
Francis and Rabbi Skorka – Best Friends

Skorka
recently gave an interview about his stay with Francis. The
incredible interview reveals more of Francis’ astounding
apostasy and full acceptance of Judaism.

Skorka
explains that during his stay with Francis at the Vatican, which
began on September 25th 2013, Francis helped him practice Judaism
and observed ceremonies of the Mosaic Law. Francis also responded
to Skorka’s Jewish prayers and Francis rejected proselytizing
him, that is, trying to convert Skorka to Catholicism.

The
article is called “Francis and Rabbi Skorka make history in the
Vatican. Skorka says:

“‘I
eat with him at breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. He cares for
me, and controls everything regarding my food to make sure it is all
kosher [foods that conform to the Jewish dietary law], and according
to my religious tradition. These
are festive days, and I have to say certain prayers at meals, and, I
expand the last prayer and translate it. He accompanies me together
with the others at the table – his secretaries and a bishop,
and they
all say ‘Amen’ at the end,’
the Rabbi said. ‘We come together without burying our
identities. I
spoke to him about evangelization, and he
stated emphatically, that the Catholic Church cannot engage in
proselytism,
he said.’”

Francis’
actions clearly constitute heresy and apostasy, a total rejection of
Jesus Christ and the Catholic Faith, because the Catholic Church
dogmatically teaches that observance of the Old Law is forbidden
under pain of mortal sin and the loss of salvation, and that Judaism
is a false religion from which people must be converted to be saved.
Antipope Francis’ message denies those truths and the necessity
of Christ, Himself.

Francis
and Rabbi Skorka

Who
will dare to deny Jesus Christ and call this wicked apostate,
Francis, who totally rejects Jesus Christ and His necessity, a
representative, nay, the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ?

Francis
is a heretic; he’s not a Catholic – according to Catholic
teaching, heretics cannot be valid Popes.

The
Catholic Encyclopedia, “Heresy,” 1914, Vol. 7, p.
261: “The pope himself, if notoriously guilty of heresy,
would cease to be pope because he would cease to be
a member of the Church.”

Francis
and the Jews

Francis
is nothing more than a non-Catholic antipope, falsely posing as the
leader of the Catholic Church.

As
was noted earlier, the Council of Florence defined as a dogma that
it’s a mortal sin to observe Judaism or the Mosaic Law after
the promulgation of the Gospel. The Council also stated Judaism and
the Mosaic Law cannot be observed without the loss of eternal
salvation.

Council
of Florence

That’s
a solemnly defined teaching of the Catholic Church. By helping
Skorka practice Judaism and observe ceremonies of the Old Law,
Francis blatantly denies the dogmatic teaching of the Catholic
Church. Francis encourages Skorka to commit mortal sin and
practice a non-Christian religion which rejects Jesus.

Francis’
action in this regard are heresy and apostasy because his deeds as
well as words manifest his position, that it’s acceptable to
practice Judaism, observe the Old Law and reject Jesus.
And that position is a denial of Catholic dogma, as St. Thomas
Aquinas taught, “Now man can make profession of his inward
faith, by deeds as well as by words: and in either profession, if
he makes a false declaration he sins mortally.” (Summa
Theologica, I-II; Q. 103, A. 4).

Concerning
Francis’ profession of faith in deed, he takes part in
condemned Jewish worship, contrary to Catholic teaching, he takes
part in non-Catholic worship. He even uses his “authority”
to organize kosher meals and other aspects of condemned Jewish
worship, so the Jews can observe the Mosaic laws contrary to the
profession of the true faith.

Kosher
Francis hosts Jewish leaders for kosher lunch and prays with them

In
one such meeting in January 2014, Francis hosted Argentine Jewish
leaders for a kosher lunch and joint prayer. Together Francis and the
Jewish leaders intoned Psalm 133 in Hebrew, which says, “How
good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in
unity.”

Francis
thus professes in word and deed that Jews who reject the Son have
unity with God the Father. The profession of the true faith is
precisely the opposite. No one who denies the Son has salvation or
unity with the Father. “No one who denies the Son has the
Father.” (1 John 2:23)

“...
whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” (1
John 5:12)

So
the answer to our question: “Does Francis profess the true
faith?” - could not be more clear.

It’s
a fact that Francis does not profess, state and display the true
faith, but a false non-Catholic faith.

Francis
displays a false non-Catholic faith

In
his 1943 encyclical, Mystici Corporis Christii, Pope Pius XII
taught, “Actually only those are to be included as members
of the Church who have received the laver of regeneration and profess
the true faith...” It is the teaching of the Catholic
Church that you can only consider as members of the Catholic Church
those who have received the laver of regeneration (that is, water
baptism) and profess the true faith.

According
to Catholic teaching, therefore, Francis cannot be counted among the
members of the Church, for only those who are baptized and profess
the true faith are to be considered members of the Church.

That’s
precisely why Pope Leo XIII declared in the encyclical “Satis
Cognitum,” #13, June 29, 1896: “You are not to be
looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do
not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held.”

Skorka’s
revelation that Francis also rejects trying to
evangelize/proselytize/convert him, further proves that Francis
rejects the defined Catholic dogma,
‘Outside
the Church There is No Salvation,’
and
the dogma that faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for salvation.

Francis
is not just a complete apostate who endorses Judaism and repudiates
Catholic teaching, but it’s true to say that Francis is
actually a practicing Jew. That’s because Francis celebrates
Jewish holidays and has repeatedly participated in Jewish ceremonies
and worship.

Bergoglio
Celebrating Hanukkah with Argentinian Jews, December 2012

On
December 14, 2012, just a few months before his election as antipope
– Francis celebrated Hanukkah with Jews in the synagogue which
included Francis lighting a menorah, and as Rabbi Skorka noted, when
Skorka said his prayers and conducted Judaic ceremonies in observance
of the Old Law and on the festival days of Judaism, Francis helped
and even participated by saying ‘Amen.’ Francis has thus
repeatedly engaged in active participation in Judaism.

That
means that in addition to being a heretical antipope, who falsely
claims to be a Catholic, Francis is a practicing Jew!

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